"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Biomolecular Science."; Thesis advisor: Barry Hoopengardner.; M.A.,Central Connecticut State University,,2014.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves...

The prophage of bacteriophage P1 is a unit copy plasmid, stable in Escherichia coli during cell division due to its partition system. The active P1 partition system consists of two genes, parA and parB, and a cis-site, parS. ParS contains all of...

Rats lacking normal hairy coats were discovered several years ago among our colony of hairy albino rats. The trait was found to be controlled by a recessive allele of a gene we designated shorn (shn), which mapped to distal end of rat chromosome 7....

"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Science in Physical Education."; Thesis Advisor: Kimberly Kostelis.; M.S.,Central Connecticut State University,,2014.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves...

"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Data Mining."; Thesis advisor: Daniel Larose.; M.S.,Central Connecticut State University,,2013.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-71).

"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Science in Geography."; Thesis advisor: Charles E. Button.; M.S.,Central Connecticut State University,,2013.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-87).

The tick has ability to transmit a greater variety of infectious agents to humans and other animal species than any other blood-feeding arthropod. Feeding over a period of days induces specific host hemostatic, inflammatory, and immune responses....

Myrmecochory is a widespread and diverse mutualism between ants and flowering plants in which a modified seed appendage, an elaiosome, is provided to ants as a food reward. In eastern North American forests, ants of the genus Aphaenogaster disperse...

Acetaminophen is extensively used as an analgesic and antipyretic agent, but at high doses it causes liver damage. The major metabolic pathways of acetaminophen are glucuronidation and sulfation. In addition to these pathways, acetaminophen...

Myogenesis is an important process that occurs during the developmental stages of an embryo. Stem cells learn of their fate during this course if they will become muscle cells and from there, differentiation within those muscle cells will take...

A-to-I RNA editing is an enzymatic reaction commonly found in the nervous system of various organisms. The mechanism behind this post-transcriptional modification is the hydrolytic deamination of Adenosine to Inosine by a family of enzymes known as...

RNA editing is a mechanism which is used to increase the number of possible protein products from a specific gene. The catalytic enzymes for RNA editing are known to be present in a wide variety of organisms, including many different insects. It...

The discovery of antibiotics was one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st 20th century (Van Kraaig, 1999 and Livermore, 2004). The current need for new antibiotics to fight bacterial pathogens that have become resistant is growing every day. ...